Large collection of classic texts in political thoughts, social and economic theory etc., as published by the Liberty Fund ‘to encourage the study of the ideal of a society of free and responsible individuals.’ There is a full-text search facility.

Lists of constitutional documents, including draft constitutions, sketches for constitutions, significant clauses in legislation etc. Links to digitised facsimiles of documents. Transcribed texts available in a subscription version. There is a full-text search facility. This material is also available in a reference book series.

NORTH ATLANTIC

The French Revolution Digital Archive (FRDA) is a multi-year collaboration of the Stanford University Libraries and the Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF) to produce a digital version of the key research sources of the French Revolution and make them available to the international scholarly community. The archive is based around two main resources, the Archives parlementaires and a vast corpus of images first brought together in 1989 and known as the Images de la Revolution française.

‘The 1848 collection is comprised of over 100 pamphlets and periodicals from 1848 to 1851. Currently, one can search the database by title and by call numbers (the call numbers have been provided by CRL). The pamphlets and periodicals are not separated in the search database; thus, a given title search will provide the titles of all pamphlets, and periodicals which have that title in the database. Once a particular entry has been chosen the page image will appear on the screen.’

A fully annotated digital edition of the diary of William Godwin, kept from 1788-1836. Offers a unique window on radical literary, political and social circles in London – of particular use for identifying circles in which many overseas visitors, emigres and exiles moved.

United States

‘A searchable collection of election returns from the earliest years of American democracy’. Can be searched by State, Year, Office, Jurisdiction or Election Type. ‘18040 elections have been made digital or, approximately 60% ‘ of a collection built up by Philip Lampi.

Belgium

Koninklijke Bibliotheek België (Bibliothèque royale de Belgique, Royal Library of Belgium) is an online resource providing access to nine digitised historical Belgium newspapers. Over 4 million pages have been digitised. They cover 1831 to 1950 for the following newspapers: L’Echo De La Presse, Gazet Van Brussel, Het Handelsblad, L’Indépendance Belge (printed in Britain), Le Messager De Gand, De Nieuwe Gids, De Nieuwe Standaard and Het Nieuws Van Den Dag.However, only content before 1919 is freely accessible over the internet.

Handlist of surviving instances of Arabic periodicals, published in Europe, Africa, Asia and the Americas. Indexed chronologically, by persons, organizations, locations and holding institutions. More comprehensive than previous printed catalogues.

Levantine heritage: This site is intended to provide a wide range of information about the Levantine community, serve as a discussion forum, and provide a meeting point for descendants.

Eastern Mediterranean travelogues [ http://eng.travelogues.gr/ ] (website text English, Greek or Turkish). This website aims to make known the graphic materials found in travel accounts of journeys to Greece and the eastern Mediterranean from the 15th century onwards.

LATIN AMERICA

Spanish Ministry of Education educational website, including some facsimiles of sources.

https://biancapremo.com/domains/ The Colonial Spanish America Digital Jurisdictions Project : seeks to represent the overlapping layers of legal jurisdiction, which was one of the more multifaceted aspects of people’s relationship to power and place in the past. Its focus is representing competing and collaborative, contiguous and concentric legal authorities in colonial Spanish America.

European Adventurers in Gran Colombia during and after the Wars of Independence (c.1810-c.1890).
Text: compiled by Matthew Brown, in association with his book Adventuring through Spanish colonies : Simón Bolívar, foreign mercenaries and the birth of new nations (2006)

Outcome of a 3-year AHRC-funded research project. Links to texts of the ‘pronouncements’ at the centre of this form of political action. Indexed by dates, regions, participants and grievances. Transcribed text is searchable.

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